Sunday’s College Baseball Top-50 Scoreboard & Wrapup

Florida lived up to its billing as the #1 team in the CB360 Composite National Rankings, sweeping a tough series at #10 Miami – thanks to a 5-run surge in the 9th to win Sunday’s finale, 8-5. For the second straight day, the number of top-50 upsets was in single digits, as the favorites combined to go 35-9 (80%) in Sunday’s games involving CB360 top-50 teams (with one rainout). front-page photo courtesy of Arkansas

Six underdogs had the chance to win series on Sunday, but Radford was the only that won a series-deciding game (7-3 at #49 UNC Greensboro). #21 Louisville had lost its series opener vs. #42 Pepperdine, but the Cardinals won on Sunday (7-3) to secure that series.

The marquee Palmetto State rivalry was played out at its third different site during the weekend, with #14 Clemson averting the sweep thanks to a 6-3 win over #3 South Carolina. #30 USC also avoided being swept, with a 5-2 win at #6 North Carolina – while #4 Rice (11-1 vs. #47 Tennessee) and #7 Arkansas (7-3 vs. #19 Texas) both closed tournament play at Houston’s Minute Maid Park with high-quality wins.

Travis Tingle (Louisville)

In addition to the wins by Clemson, USC and Radford, Sunday’s other CB360 top-50 upsets included:

Several of the top-50 were competing in various neural-site tournaments, meeting with mixed results.

One other result of note: #43 Gonzaga won 7-2 vs. Kansas, remaining unbeaten (10-0) and one of only two teams that has yet to lose (min. 5 DI games) in all of Division I baseball (Kentucky is 11-0).

#49 Southeastern Louisiana was the only CB360 top-50 team not scheduled to play on Sunday. The daily top-50 results re included below, along with an assortment of postgame links. A special dedicated Twitter feed is included, featuring team tweets from the weekend’s CB360 top-50 head-to-head games and from the “baker’s dozen” top-13. …

For convenience to our followers, here’s a bonus grouping of postgame media links (also included below w/ result listings) for game photos, video highlights and postgame video: